Bonbon-making machine



J. A. QUERY BoNBoN MAKING MACHINE:

Aug. v24, 192s.

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J. A. QUERY BQNBON MAKING MACHINE Filed April 24 1924 4 Skilets-Sheet 4 Patented Aug. 24, 1926.

UNITED STATES i j .iJOSEPH A. QUERY, OF SOMERVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS.

IBONB01W-MAKING MACHINE.

Application led. April 24, 1924. Serial No. 708,736.

`In my application for a United States patent, Serial No. 590,193, I have shown a machine for deposit-ing individual nut meats in moulds to be afterward covered with chocolate coatings or otherwise as desired. This machine has worked exceedingly well with nut meats. My present invention relates.' to a similar machine adapted more particularly for use with cherries and other small fruits which being in themselves more delicate, require a somewhat more careful handling.

My invention will be understood by reference to the drawings, in which* n `Figure 1 is a plan of a'machine embodymg my invention.

Fig. 2 is a section on line 2 2; of Fig. 1.

`Figs.3 and 4 being similar sections with the parts located, however, `in different positions, and

Fig. 5 is an end elevation.

`1 is a 'stationary7 table mounted on legs 2, 2 braced by .suitable cross pieces 3, 3. This table is perforated as at 4, 4 with openings l of suchlocation, size and shape as may be desired in view Vof the article to be deposited, as is shown at 5, 5 (see Fig. 2). This table is of considerable size, but its size and shape may be varied as desired. It has upwardly-projecting side walls 41 and inwardly-projecting portions 42 to form grooves 43 in which may slide the upper slide plate 6. This upper slide plate 6` is perforated as at 8' and has side and end walls 7, this plate forming in a sense a hopper in which the fruits or nuts are deposited more o-r less in bulk. The side walls 7 are located a short distance from its side edges to form guide pieces 61 which slide in the grooves 43. Its perforations 8 are the size of the perforations 4 in the table 1 and are arranged so that upon sliding the upper plate 6 into the position shown in Fig. 3 these perforations 8 will register with the pertorations 4 in the table, and means are provided, as will be described below, whereby a proper limited movement may be given to this upper slide plate for this purose. p Below the table 1 is mounted a lower plate 9 which also is provided with perforations 10 similar in size, shape and location to the perforations 4 and 8 in the table and upper slide plate, respectively. The table and both slide plates are slotted as at 11 and through the slots are passed bolts 12 with suitable nuts, this arrangement being suc-h that the lower plate is held against the bottom of the table, and both the upper and lower plates may be given a .slight longitudinal 6o movement to bri-ng their respective openings 8 and 10 at suitable times in register with the openings 4 inthe table 1.

To move these slide plates I provide levers 13 and 14. These levers 13 and 14 are mounted in a bracket 15 which bracket is supported on the upturned end 16 of the table 1, being secured thereto by bolts. The

lever 13 is attached by the pivoted link 19 tothe top slide 6 so that bymoving the free end of thelever 13 the top slide will be moved. In like manner the flower slide 9V is connected by the pivoted link 191 to the lever 14 so that it may be moved in or ont as occasionmay require.

These parts being in the positionishown in Fig. 2, the top slide hopper? is filled with the articles to be deposited and they fall by gravity so far as may be into the openings 8 in the ilor6 of the hopper. The operator standing at the lefthand end of the apparatus (see Fig. 1) pulls the lever 13 towards him. Thiscauses the perforations 8 in the floor 6 of the hopper7 to register with the openings 4 in the table 1 as shown in Fig. 3, thus segregating the various nut meats, cherries, or whatever the articles may be, from each other in their respective openings 4 in the table 1, after which thelever 13 is returned to its original position, thus preventing the meats, etc. from piling up in the openings in the table, and at the same time filling the perforations 8 with another charge of nuts, etc.

Thereafter the operator pushes in the lever 14, thus causin the registration of the openings 10 in the ower slide with the openings 4 1n the table 1 and allowing the contents of these openings to drop through onto the receiver below.

The preferred form of receiver is one like that shown in section in Figs. 2, 3 and 4 of the drawings and comprises a mould box 20 which may be of any desired construe tion carrying the usual starch mould 241 with starch pockets or cavities 24. This mould box is set on slideways 21 mounted on legs 22 and their braces 221 and properly centered by means of brackets 23 and guide plates 25 so that each cavity 24 may be 1obeen moved to release the contents oi the periorations i such contents Will fall into the cavities 24 in the mould and will thereafter be treated in any desired- Way. Thel slideways 2l are oi: any desired length7 preierably long enough to support a number of these mould boxes so that when one mould box is filled it may be pushed out oi the Way in the act of pushing an empty mould box into place.

The simplicity of construction or my machine will be apparent. While the means of connecting the links 19 and 191. With the upper slide 6 may be oif any desired construction, l have. shown such connection to be a bolt 26 Whichpasses down through one Wall of the hopper 7. and through a proper opening'in the links 19 and 191, thus pivoting the links properly so thatthe lever may be operated Without jammi Y Otlierrmeans oi' embo o' my invention willv (iccur to those slrili l in the art-7 the details of my machine'being` `variable according to curcums'tances.

ilihat I claim as my invention is l. In ainachine oi the kind desmribedT ay stationary perforated member and tivo slide membersa each having periorations located and adapted to be .brought 'into'register With the perforations in saidvstationary member, said slide members being located one above and the other belovv` said stationary member, said upper slide member having upsta'nding Walls'so as to be adapted to serve as a hopper to receive and distribute material into4 said perforations in said stationary member. ,c u

in a machine of the kind described, a stationary perforated table, a slide thereon having opstanding Walls so asy to be adapted to serve as a hopper, said slide having perrora'tions and being adapted'to be moved whereby when the perforations of said upper e member are in register with the perfovis in saidV stationary member material in die periorations. of said upper member will be fed to the periorationsfin Vsaid sta.- tionary member and maybe held therein by said lower slide member, in combination with a moldy located belovv said lower slide member and having cavities registering With the perforations in said .stationary member whereby vWhen the perforations of said lower sl'de member arebrought into register with the periorations in said stationary member.y

the contents of said stationary member will he discharged into the cavities in said mold. f

f JOSEPH A. QUERY( 

